Communities have been pooling resources to have community things since humanity got off the ground?
Of all the things you can point to that are corrupt and sinister about organized religion, membership dues are like… any group in 2026 needs funding if you can’t fit its members in a living room?
This is what happens when you have a religion that you see as separate from your culture. Like this is so close and also misses the point.
Like, EXACTLY, membership dues are basically taxes. Communities pool resources to have things like, I dunno, a place to meet? It’s not sinister.
3: The mechanisms of the payment can be complex, but there's a subsistence allowance built into military pay.
4: Enlisted troops get a larger subsistence allowance than officers.
5: IOW, a good chunk of the money for the food the article is whining/moral panicking about is literally payroll.
1: The ribeye and seafood contracts look like Defense Logistics Agency contracts spread around the world. DLA buys the food served at military dining facilities. Which are more frequented by troops than brass.
2: There's some subsidy, but troops generally pay for their DFAC meals.
The thing is, although I find liberation theology attractive, it is firmly addicted to antisemitic Christian representations of Jews and Jewish institutions in especially financial context. I note that a number of Yidden are following @liberationtheology.bsky.social
Yup. It was and is disgraceful.
Shh, jerkbrain
Oh, nice!
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If you need jars, lids, or other canning supplies, we have just what you need. Alternately, if you need instruments and subsystems for space telescope or other aerospace applications, we can do that too, says Ball.
(This level of cynicism is why I should probably take a break from synagogue leadership)
Guess what? The complainers will keep complaining, the bystanders will keep bystanding, the board will keep catering to the boomer donors and those few of us who actually do any work will keep getting everything done.
I have been in synagogue leadership in one position or another for almost 15 years, and this is the third time I’ve had to sit through “training” from a “consultant“ that is magically supposed to fix people.
I do not want to go to this damn meeting.
random employees don’t have the ability to sell missiles to Iran so I don’t know what that has to do with anything?
I’m all for a revival of mainline Protestant theology in the US, which I think would be broadly positive, and I wish Talarico well. I don’t mind at all that his Christianity inspires him, but I do wish he could find a way to express that without making Second Temple Judaism the obstacle to overcome.
Progressive Christianity arguably has even more of a supersessionism problem than conservative Christianity, since it needs to define itself as a Christianity of love against the conservative Christianity of rules and legalism, which is then inherently associated with Judaism.
They’re manufactured here in Tucson. Raytheon makes way too much damn money from the US government to risk it by selling under the table to *Iran*.
If Iran has Tomahawk missiles, they got them from us. While other countries do have various types of cruise missiles, the Tomahawk is distinct and also only used by the US and people the US has sold it to. To date we've only sold them to the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands.
It's actually interesting how they are overtly doing what many folks who want to control discourse around Jews do.
When they don't like what other Jews believe, they find ways not just to invalidate their views, but to invalidate their very Jewish identity.
And now they are doing it with polling.
Trump's assholery has killed a wonderful advanced X-ray astronomical mission that has been in development for almost a decade.
I honestly don't think Europeans can grasp this without getting a sense of like, daily scale in large parts of the United States. it's a big place!
I live in the city with one of the largest book festivals in the country and I have almost never gone to actual festival events because the schedule is just *so* overwhelming. But today I’m going to get tickets to an author panel (@scalzi.com & @julieleong.bsky.social). Wish me luck. 🤞🏻
Screenshot of a tweet from Representative Andy Ogles that says: "Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie."
This is disgusting and disturbingly becoming the norm among far-right members of Congress. When elected officials decline to condemn this hatred, it is allowed to fester and grow.
We know we are *all* safer in a pluralistic democracy and must take these menacing, corrosive statements seriously.
Chart from linked article, showing what % of of each major fertilizer type (nitrogen, phosphorus, & potassium) the US imports, 2000-2024. N has gone down from 21% imported to 6%. Phosphorus is a little up from 2% to 13%. Potassium has gone from 76% to 94%.
The US already makes 96% of the N fertilizer we use.
The fertilizer we import the most is POTASSIUM. Which we get from CANADA.
When we import phosphorus, we get 98% of it from PERU. Not Iran.
So the reason we've had trouble getting those is TARIFFS.
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3 synagogues shot at in a week. This attempt to intimidate the Toronto Jewish community must be unequivocally condemned and thoroughly investigated. We are deeply relieved no one was injured.
Yay!
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
Neither. As I've said before, I worry that we ignore the horrors of mass deportation staring us in the face if we jump straight to envisioning them as extermination camps.
Mass immigration detention is worth opposing for its ongoing problems, not what might in some uncertain world come to pass.
